The president of the CTA joins us to discuss issues facing teachers this school year. Sacramento has a new, low-cost prescription drug plan. Researchers are creating thinking computer chips. A local photographer is documenting HIV cases in Indonesia.

Local Libyans Rebel fighters are in the process
of capturing the Libyan capitol city of Tripoli today as government
forces evacuate. We'll speak with an opponent of General
Gadhafi's regime who left Libya decades ago. Jamal Buzayan now lives in Davis, CA and
runs a non-profit organization, Children of
Libya Aid Foundation, that coordinates medical care for Libyan
children injured in the country's fighting.

CTA President School funding, classroom size,
layoffs, teacher-led education reform, and collective bargaining
are some of the issues California teachers are facing. We'll
speak with the president of the California Teachers Association, Dean Vogel,
about what the teachers union is doing to improve the state
education system and conditions for
teachers.

Cognitive Computer Chips A team of researchers,
including two professors from UC Merced, are working on a new generation of computer chips that can
"learn through experiences, find correlations, create hypotheses
and remember and learn from the outcomes, mimicking the brain's
structural and synaptic plasticity." We'll speak with Chris Kello, who is leading one part of the
project.

Against All Odds Local photographer Andri
Tambunan is in the middle of a project to document the overwhelmingly HIV
positive population of Indonesia's biggest province,
Papua. It's home to approximately one percent of
Indonesia's population but 40 percent of the country's HIV/AIDS
cases. Papua is classified as a restricted area by the
Indonesian government and it's almost impossible for foreign
journalists to gain access and conduct independent research.
Tambunan's Indonesian background, fluency of the main language, and
established ties with local NGOs and key figures have earned him
access however. He'll speak with us about his project
"Against All Odds" before returning to Papua on the
28th.

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About our guest host: Sacramento-native David Watts Barton has been involved in
Sacramento's music and cultural scene for more than 30 years as a
writer, performer and fan. He now serves as Editor-in-Chief of The
Sacramento Press and regularly fills in on Insight